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by bstrong 5y ago
I generally try to be encouraging of people putting themselves out there to create something new, but I'm worried that you're creating a pretty serious moral hazard for the founders you're trying to help. It's the kind o
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by bstrong 6y ago
Very cool! Reminds me of all the fun I had with Rocky's Boots on Apple II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots
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by bstrong 6y ago
In my experience, it's mostly the situations where people give their emails in person that are a problem: Receipts from in-store purchases (and in-store credit card signups), hotel reservations and rewards programs, EMR signups, lawyer
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by bstrong 7y ago
"One unusual capability of the Snark missile was its ability to fly away from its launch point for up to 11 hours, and then return for a landing. If its warhead did not detach from its body, then the Snark could be flown repeatedly.&qu
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by bstrong 7y ago
I built a service around 2005 that did realtime photo sync and sharing from mobile devices. Here's a demo video from 2007 (the most relevant part is around 6:45): https://connectedsocialmedia.com/1163/sharpcast-dem
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by bstrong 9y ago
For a beginner, I think it's hard to beat "C++ Primer" by Stanley Lippman.
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by bstrong 9y ago
Oh, memories. I took CS107 in 1996, which was apparently the date this handout was written. Nick was my academic advisor, and his CS108 (which was C++ at the time) was one of my favorite courses of all time. Bunny World... Maybe I'm ju
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by bstrong 9y ago
P. Terry's serves "all-natural" beef, but it is not grass-fed. If you want a grass-fed burger in Austin, try Wholly Cow (which is quite a bit more expensive than McDonald's, as you would expect).
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by bstrong 9y ago
I highly recommend Honey Stinger Gold. I had trouble with every other gel I've tried, but I can digest the honey just fine, even without water.
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by bstrong 9y ago
I have a Garmin Fenix 3, and the vibration wakes me up easily. It also goes well over a week between charges, even using the GPS heavily. Long battery life is important for a watch you are going to use as an alarm, since you lose the conven
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by bstrong 10y ago
I find it interesting that people are complaining both about the lack of a web app and about Google keeping message history on their servers. I'm assuming they will eventually build a web app, but you can't build a useful one unle
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by bstrong 11y ago
Wow, that was harsh. If startups were assigned to the Deadpool based solely on whether their 1.0 products were ready to immediately disrupt billion dollar industries, there wouldn't be _any_ successful startups out there. Personally, w
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by bstrong 12y ago
> If an employee generated no additional income to it's employer, there would be no reason to hire him in the first place. The thing to remember here is that hiring managers aren't spending their own money. And most managers I
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Introducing vLine link: Free, simple WebRTC video chat(blog.vline.com)
29 points by bstrong 13y ago|13 comments
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WebRTC: Security and Confidentiality(sporadicdispatches.blogspot.com)
7 points by bstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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by bstrong 13y ago
I'm pretty sure we didn't do that. :) Unfortunately, this is one of the reasons we've been reluctant to publicize GitTogether. You never know if the login will work or the contact list will load.
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GitTogether: Video Chat for GitHub (powered by WebRTC)(blog.vline.com)
17 points by bstrong 13y ago|3 comments
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by bstrong 13y ago
Not sure what to say about signaling other than handling all the edge cases takes a non-trivial amount of effort and testing (which is true of most things in software). Chat is only possible peer-to-peer if you don't care about histories. S
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by bstrong 13y ago
I can't speak to how the Twilio Client works, but how we're different is easy: We do video. Twilio is only voice.
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by bstrong 13y ago
We don't provide any special support for doing this, but we do give you access to the browser's MediaStream object. You can attach that to an AudioContext and use the web audio API to do what you're asking for.
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by bstrong 13y ago
We ran this experiment a few times and it took most people about a minute to install Skype if they already had an account, and at least a couple if they did not. On many machines (such as mine) it can take 30 seconds just to open Skype.
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by bstrong 13y ago
Good feedback. To address your comments: >> This just seems like a wrapper around webrtc, with some presence stuff thrown in. It turns out there is quite a bit of server-side infrastructure required to support webrtc apps. The bigge
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Show HN: Create a WebRTC service in less time than it takes to install Skype(vline.com)
34 points by bstrong 13y ago|12 comments
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Twitter is Unix. Facebook is Windows.(blog.benstrong.com)
2 points by bstrong 15y ago|0 comments
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IOS, Twitter, and the World Wide Message Bus(blog.benstrong.com)
2 points by bstrong 15y ago|0 comments
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by bstrong 16y ago
This doesn't make any sense at all to me for generating dynamic html, since the whole page load will be stalled while you run your db queries. Most sites run many queries to generate a page, at least some of which need to be done serially,
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by bstrong 16y ago
Fair point. In retrospect, invoking net neutrality wasn't really called for.
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by bstrong 16y ago
I'm not sure how the fact that it's a server-side change makes it ok. I think that everyone would agree that turning off congestion control entirely on the server side would be bad and would negatively impact other flows. The question, then
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by bstrong 16y ago
I agree fully. I focused on the front-end because squeezing milliseconds out of the backend is my day job, and I'm pretty confident I can generate pages in < 50ms. Given that, I thought it would be interesting to see just how much I cou
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by bstrong 16y ago
It's not tunable at the app level. On linux it requires a kernel patch to change. I'm not sure about other OS's.

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